There's another movie about motorcycle gangs in the theatre called The Bikeriders. Google claims that "The film is fiction but it's inspired by a photo book from 1967 that depicts the lives of a real Illinois motorcycle club. It all started with some outcasts creating a surrogate family but over the years, it evolves into an organized crime syndicate far away from the club's original vision." Starts off as a brotherhood then evolves into an organized crime syndicate. Where have we heard that before? In the trailer it mentions drugs and prostitution which is not surprising.
The quote states "The club got real big real fast. They started running drugs, gambling, prostitution." As we have seen locally, drugs and prostitution go hand in hand. They give strippers drugs and tell them if you want to make a lot of money, you should be an escort. Then when the drugs eat them alive they end up dead on the Pickton farm. What contesting adults do behind closed doors is their business but there is nothing noble or admirable about living off the avails.
Look at the Margo Compton case. That was deranged. I'm not going to hate. I'm just going to separate. That ain't my thing. I don't want anything to do with any of that and I never have.
PeeWee Goldsmith said the first MC he joined was like a family. The Hells Angels were different. That was Pat Matter's chapter who was a crystal meth dealer that rolled on his own crew. So yeah, I guess that chapter wasn't much of a family. I like to ride but I don't like drugs. You don't need to sell drugs to ride and you don't need a patch. It's much easier to blend in without one.
A guy I knew pretty well from work ended up in jail and he was on the same unit as David “Gyrator” Giles. He told me that every time he would see the younger guys on the unit he would hold up his hand shaped like a gun and say BANG BANG! And then laugh to himself. But my friend said that the Gyrator Giles had the most bizarre creepy laugh, like it was more like a robotic laugh. he sounded like one of those toy dolls that you pull the string and they say “ma ma “ and everyone was scared of him.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a story. Giles was on thin ice before he died. I don't think he had a large funeral. They killed Blackie and Billy Bowden for sponsoring informants. They didn't kill Giles but he didn't have the respect he once had.
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